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Ferguson local history microform collection, 1901-1975

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Microform reproductions of mainly Australian local, church and school history pamphlets, arranged by state and locality, collected by John Alexander Ferguson. The collection includes material relating to New Zealand, Norfolk Island, Papua New Guinea and Antarctica and some Pacific islands.

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Papers of P. G. Taylor, 1922-1967

Papers of Ulrich Ellis, 1900-1983

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Ulrich Ellis was Political Secretary to the Federal Country Party Leader from 1928-1936, and the papers in the first consignment particularly cover the formation and history of the Country Party throughout Australia. They include correspondence, pamphlets, policy speeches, minutes of meetings, press cuttings and notes for Ellis's book A History of the Australian Country Party, 1963. They concern Sir Earle Page, Bruce, Lyons and Menzies among others.

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Donald Ian McDonald collection of slides, approximately 1960-1969

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Collection of images taken by Donald Ian McDonald in the 1960s documenting significant buildings and landmarks in cities and towns in South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania, and Western Australia.

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Byrne Goodrick and Ian Angus Map Collection, 1925-1956

Papers of John Kempster, 1959-1968

Papers of Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru collected by D.A. Low, 1896-1981

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The collection consists largely of photocopies of the papers of Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, 1875 – 1949, which were collected, copied and bound by Professor D. A. Low. The original collection is held in full in the National Library of India, Calcutta. The collection documents the Indian National Movement for Independence focussing on the years 1920 to 1949.

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Papers of Howard E. Williams, 1878-1969

Papers of Sir Philip Strong, c.1900-2007

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MS 3921 comprises papers relating to Philip Strong's years in New Guinea including a number of addresses to the Synod, processed letters to the missionary staff and pastoral messages. There is a typescript copy of Strong's recollections of his first three years in New Guinea written in 1942, a copy of his book Out of great tribulation (1947) and about 25 pamphlets all relating to Anglican missionary activity in New Guinea. The collection also includes about 15 pamphlets relating to the period when Strong was archbishop of Brisbane and primate of Australia.The Acc07.047 instalment comprises correspondence, photographs, diaries, publications, prayer books, sermons, notebooks and drawings.The Acc09.116 instalment comprises papers documenting Strong's childhood, education and professional life in the Anglican Church. They include correspondence, diaries, notes and notebooks, sermons and addresses, publications and reminiscences of wartime Papua New Guinea.The Acc13.109 instalment comprises 40 diaries and some correspondence relating to Sir Philip Strong's time in New Guinea.

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Papers of the Brown Family (as filmed by the AJCP), 1829-1899

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Correspondence, initially between James Hoey, who migrated to Victoria in 1852 with his brother Thomas, and the Brown Family, describing life in Melbourne. Maggie Brown travelled to Australia in 1854 to marry James Hoey and their letters to the family in Scotland relate domestic news and tell of conditions on the goldfields at Bendigo and Eaglehawk, where Thomas and James Hoey began prospecting in 1856 with their brother-in-law John Buckie. Jane Hay Brown arrived in Australia in 1859 on the Royal Charter to care for her sister Maggie, who died later that year. All correspondents refer to activities of fellow Scots in Australia.

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